MIRACLE 18 – TABLE OF BANI ISREAL

Hazrat Imam Mohammed Baqir (a.s.) narrates from his noble forefathers from Hazrat Imam Husain (a.s.) that,

‘One day we were seated in the presence of Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) and there was a dried-up tree over there. Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) was with a group who loved him (a.s.), when few people came near him who bore hatred to Imam Ali (a.s.) and saluted him (a.s.). Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) asked them to be seated.

Imam Ali (a.s.) said: ‘I shall show you all a sign today which will become among you like an example of the table meal among the children of Israel when Allah, said: “Surely We will send it down upon you, but the one from you who commits Kufr afterwards, then I will punish him with such a punishment I have not punished anyone from the worlds!” [5:115].

Then he (a.s.) pointed to the dried-up tree and said: ‘Look at that tree!’ And it had been dry, and there, water flowed in its trunk, then it became green and sprouted leaves, and it fruited and lowered its load to our heads. Then he (a.s.) turned towards us and said to the ones who loved him (a.s.): ‘Extend your hands and take and eat’. So, we said, ‘In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful, and we took and ate pomegranates, we had not eaten at all anything fresher than it and better than it.

Then he said to the ones who were hating him (a.s.): ‘Extend your hand and take!’ They extended their hands, but every time a man from them extended his hand to a pomegranate, it rose higher, so they could not take anything.

They said, ‘O Ameerul Momineen (a.s.)! What is the matter our brothers extended their hand and took and ate, and we extended our hands, but we could not take?’ He (a.s.) said: ‘Like that is the Paradise, none can attain it except our friends and ones who love us nor will anyone be distanced from it except our enemies and ones hating us’. ¹

Footnotes

1. Behar al-Anwaar, Vol. 41, Chp 112, Trad 4 ↩